NRA calls games a "corrupting shadow industry"
Lobb✤ying group lays part of blame for Sandy H♚ook shooting on violent games
The National Rifle Association has laid part of the blame for last week's Sandy Hook Elementary𝔉 school shooting on video games.
"There exists in🐓 this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people," NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said in a televised press conference this morning, partially captured by and fully annotated .
"Through vicious, violent video games with names like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bulletstorm, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Grand Theft Auto, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mortal Kombat, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Splatterhouse. And here's one: it's called Kindergarten Killers. It's been online for 10 years. How come my research department could find it and all of yo꧒urs either couldn't or didn't want anyone to know you had found it?"
In the likely event that you're not familiar with Kindergarten Killers, it's a flash game which originally appeared on N𝓰ewgrounds in 2002. LaPierre also condemned the rest of American media: films and music for depictions of slaughter, and the news media for chasing an anti-gun agenda with sensational headlines.
He didn't call them corrupting shadow industries, though. Wowzers.
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